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Northern Light said:
I will submit this trail section for @robmausser 's review; and @TwinHuey 's overview.
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Looking west towards Pharmacy Ave
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Looking west at Warden Ave
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Looks like someone has cycled on the fresh asphalt...@robmausser? :)

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Looking west from Birchmount Rd
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Monarch Butterfly said:
A bench would be considered a "parking space" for cyclists and pedestrians. :eek: Transportation Services can't have that.
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You're being silly. The staff in the Cycling and Pedestrian Unit actually bike, and do their best within allowable budgets to build good facilities for pedestrian and cyclists. Belittling their contribution is a bad look.
 
Thanks @TwinHuey for those Finch Hydro Corridor photos! So close one can taste it at this point!

There are a few other bikeways I was informed by city staff should be done by the end of this year. If anyone happens to be near these projects, please post here what you find.

  • Port Union Road from Lawrence Ave E to Hwy 401 (1.9 km)
  • Adelaide/Power/Richmond (0.2 km)
  • Logan Ave from Gowan Ave to Cosburn Ave (0.1 km)
  • York Gate Blvd from Jane St to Finch Corridor Trail (0.5 km)
  • Steeles Ave E from Brimley Rd to McCowan Rd (0.5 km)
 
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TwoWheelPoli said:
Thanks @TwinHuey for those Finch Hydro Corridor photos! So close one can taste it at this point!

There are a few other bikeways I was informed by city staff should be done by the end of this year. If anyone happens to be near these projects, please post here what you find.

  • Port Union Road from Lawrence Ave E to Hwy 401 (1.9 km)
  • Adelaide/Power/Richmond (0.2 km)
  • Logan Ave from Gowan Ave to Cosburn Ave (0.1 km)
  • York Gate Blvd from Jane St to Finch Corridor Trail (0.5 km)
  • Steeles Ave W from Brimley Rd to McCowan Rd (0.5 km)
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I mentioned Pt. Union one page back; along with Sentinel and the small segment on Bedford....
 
Got another question regarding the Finch Hydro Corridor. Has anyone heard when Phase 2 consultation for the gap from Pharmacy to Pineway is expected to happen? The only thing indicated on the project website is 2024+. 🤔

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Finch Corridor Trail Gap Feasibility Study

The Finch Corridor is a multi-use trail that stretches along the Finch hydro corridor from the Highway 400 in Etobicoke to Middlefield Road in Scarborough. The City of Toronto is conducting a feasibility study to explore options to close an approximately five kilometre gap in the trail between...
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TwoWheelPoli said:
Got another question regarding the Finch Hydro Corridor. Has anyone heard when Phase 2 consultation for the gap from Pharmacy to Pineway is expected to happen? The only thing indicated on the project website is 2024+. 🤔

www.toronto.ca

Finch Corridor Trail Gap Feasibility Study

The Finch Corridor is a multi-use trail that stretches along the Finch hydro corridor from the Highway 400 in Etobicoke to Middlefield Road in Scarborough. The City of Toronto is conducting a feasibility study to explore options to close an approximately five kilometre gap in the trail between...
www.toronto.ca www.toronto.ca
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That'll be awhile. Lots of of complexity and cost issues to work out.
 
Monarch Butterfly said:
Like will there be signalled or unsignalled crossings?
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Of the 404? LOL..........

No, that's not a key issue........bridge/tunnel or around.....that's a key issue.

There's also the railway, GO's parking lot, Seneca's Pparking, a Transfer station, third party utilities (oil pipeline and Enbridge), and privately licensed parking already in place east of VP.
 
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TwoWheelPoli said:
Thanks @TwinHuey for those Finch Hydro Corridor photos! So close one can taste it at this point!

There are a few other bikeways I was informed by city staff should be done by the end of this year. If anyone happens to be near these projects, please post here what you find.

  • Port Union Road from Lawrence Ave E to Hwy 401 (1.9 km)
  • Adelaide/Power/Richmond (0.2 km)
  • Logan Ave from Gowan Ave to Cosburn Ave (0.1 km)
  • York Gate Blvd from Jane St to Finch Corridor Trail (0.5 km)
  • Steeles Ave E from Brimley Rd to McCowan Rd (0.5 km)
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Aug 21

Port Union Rd looking north from Lawrence Ave

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Port Union Rd looking north from Clapison Blvd

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Port Union Rd looking north to Hwy 401

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Excellent post from @TwinHuey, above.

I'm just going to post a zoomed version of one before noting something:

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You might think, at first blush, you're getting 4 sidewalks here. You're not. The interior concrete running further from the road is sidewalk. The concrete next to the road are the new Cycle Tracks. They just don't have their final surface yet.
 
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TwinHuey said:
Aug 21

Port Union Rd looking north from Lawrence Ave

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Port Union Rd looking north from Clapison Blvd

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Port Union Rd looking north to Hwy 401

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Nice! I may want to use a couple of your photos for an upcoming blog post rounding up these recent cycling developments. Will credit you, of course. Wonder how the crossing over Highway 401 is coming along? May have seen some progress on Google Street View, but it's kind of dated.
 

(Mayor) Doug Ford government appeals bike lane ruling​

From https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/doug-ford-government-appeals-bike-lane-ruling/article_6d6efc29-5e88-4a79-b01b-18772eee6098.html

A decision by a Superior Court justice last month had found the Ford government’s attempt to remove bike lanes on Bloor, University and Yonge streets violated the Charter by infringing on cyclists’ rights to life and security of person

Premier Doug Ford‘s government is appealing a Superior Court decision from last month that found its plan to remove several Toronto bike lanes was unconstitutional.
The government served a notice of appeal on Thursday to CycleToronto and the cycling advocates who launched the court campaign.

A decision by Superior Court Justice Paul Schabas on July 30 had found that sections of the Ontario government’s Bill 212, the Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, violated the Charter by infringing on cyclists’ rights to life and security of person. Parts of that bill, which became law in November, called for the removal of protected bike lanes on Yonge, University and Bloor streets. Immediately after Schabas’ decision was released, the province pledged to file an appeal.

In its notice of appeal, the government said Schabas and the Superior Court “exceeded its jurisdiction and proper constitutional role and made multiple errors of law.”
The Charter challenge was initially launched by cycling advocates, including CycleToronto, in December.

“We were elected by the people of Ontario with a clear mandate to restore lanes of traffic and move bike lanes off of major roads to secondary roads to get drivers moving,” said Dakota Brasier, a spokesperson for the minister of transportation, in a statement Friday, adding the government will “continue with the design work necessary to begin removals of bike lanes and get some of our busiest roads moving, as soon as possible.”

Michael Longfield, executive director of CycleToronto, said Schabas’ initial decision gives him confidence.

“We’re on the right track,” he said. “I think if the premier were to sit down and pause and think this through in terms of ... what his own experts are saying, he could really help meaningfully move Torontonians and Ontarians more efficiently across the city, instead of picking these fights and this bad-faith culture war.”

The premier, at an unrelated press conference in early August, had lambasted Schabas’ decision as “the worst case of trampling on people’s rights I’ve ever, ever seen in the courts. Ever.”

He declined to comment on whether his government would use the notwithstanding clause to override the court’s decision, and instead said he would wait for a ruling at the Court of Appeals.

The premier and his government campaigned on removing bike lanes in Toronto’s downtown core during February’s election. The provincial government argued that road space dedicated to cyclists was taking away road space from drivers, contributing to congestion, and cyclists should instead be diverted to “secondary roads.”
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After tallying up the cycling projects completed this year so far & what the City of Toronto expects to have finished, I determined only ten kilometres of new on-street bikeways could be installed in 2025 barring a miracle on Eglinton. 😢

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